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Bill Burr Talks About Meshuggah | "F**king Unbelievable"

2,978 views · Published 8 July 2018 · 14:37 · Indexed 25 September 2026

Channel: R&M News · 2018 · Music

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Comedian Bill Burr is a recent convert to the awesome power of 
 prog metal / djent band Meshuggah, having raved about discovering the band on his podcast called the monday morning podcast last year

But Burr hadn’t seen the band until their recent West Coast tour and he says that he had his mind sufficiently blown to pieces.

“I went with Dave —my drum teacher—I went to Meshuggah. I gotta tell ya it was a fucking life-altering experience. I can’t remember the last time I saw a fucking band that blew my mind like that.

“They are a heavy metal band—not a heavy metal—a metal band, from Sweden; who I’ve always heard of and I always tried to get into it, but the combination of the singer that ‘rawr rawr rawr rawr’-singing like that… I’m already an angry enough guy. I’m like Jesus Christ am I really going to have this on my fucking hard drive?

“And then like the music was so complex, I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t like so many of the songs, like the drummer’s basically playing like a polyrhythm. It’s like his body’s playing two different songs. I don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about.

“But as far as I can tell, it seemed like on top he’d be playing in like 4. And then his feet, I don’t know what, they’re playing like a completely different song. And then the band is playing the rhythm to his feet but the crowd is nodding to what the fuck he’s doing with his hands.

“So everybody’s grooving with this shit. It’s like I dunno, do you want to check out a fucking unbelievable song? They got this song “Bleed“. And on top he’s playing like 8th notes with the backbeat on 3.

“It’s like a seven minute song. I’ve never fucking seen… And they played it live and it sounded as good as what they played on the record. And then the whole fucking night you never saw their faces.

“It was just these fucking strobe lights going at you, lined up with the bass drum. So everybody’s fucking nodding to the beat and the lights are like in your fucking face.

“I never thought I’d be into some shit like that. I can’t say enough how fucking unbelievable that band is. And you’re doing yourself a disservice as a human being if you never see them perform. It was fucking unbelievable.

“And the amount of famous drummers that I saw standing there, just fucking geeking out, big smiles on their faces, shaking their head, ya know? Reaffirming to me as just a casual fan of music that yes, what I am hearing is that unbelievable. It’s so unbelievable that drummers that I’m blown away by are blown away by this shit.”

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